In 1800 there were around 60 million buffalo in North America. By 1890 this number had fallen to 750. The Plains Indians (Arapaho,Blackfeet,Cheyenne,Comanche,Crow,Kiowa,Sioux,Arikara,Mandan,OsageandPawnee) had now no means of independent sustenance and had to accept the government policy of ...
The Comanche were particularly expert and daring in this kind of robbery. They even trained their horses to run from one point to another in expectation of the trains coming. When a camp was made that was nearly in range, they turned their trained animals loose, which at once flew across ...